Dr. Elijah AndersoN
Dr. Elijah AndersoN
Our 2022 keynote speaker for the Breakfast was distinguished sociologist, Dr. Elijah Anderson. He is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University and is considered by his peers as a prolific and ground-breaking ethnographer of urban life. He is the author of the classic sociological work, “A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men” (1978; 2nd edition 2003). His publication, “Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City” (1999), won the Komarovsky Award from the Eastern Sociological Society, and “Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community”(1990) was recognized with the American Sociological Association’s Robert E. Park Award for the best published book in the area of Urban Sociology.
Before joining the Yale faculty in July 2007, Dr. Anderson served for many years as the Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences and professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Wharton School. There, influenced by the earlier study of The Philadelphia Negro by African-American philosophical thinker and sociologist, W.E.B. DuBois, Dr. Anderson would go on to further the work of DuBois by writing about Black urban life in Philadelphia, through his publications, Code of the Street and The Study of African-American Problems: W. E. B. Dubois’s America Then and Now.
Dr. Anderson's newest book, Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life (release date January 18, 2022), sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country. He received his bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, his master’s from the University of Chicago and his doctorate from Northwestern University, where he was a Ford Foundation Fellow.
Before joining the Yale faculty in July 2007, Dr. Anderson served for many years as the Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences and professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Wharton School. There, influenced by the earlier study of The Philadelphia Negro by African-American philosophical thinker and sociologist, W.E.B. DuBois, Dr. Anderson would go on to further the work of DuBois by writing about Black urban life in Philadelphia, through his publications, Code of the Street and The Study of African-American Problems: W. E. B. Dubois’s America Then and Now.
Dr. Anderson's newest book, Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life (release date January 18, 2022), sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country. He received his bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, his master’s from the University of Chicago and his doctorate from Northwestern University, where he was a Ford Foundation Fellow.